Poetry of the Taliban
Chris Jones is discomfited by the extraordinary fruits of a troubled and troubling literature
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In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections
The difficulty for philosophers, trading mainly in age-old problems, is to offer something both true and interesting at the same time. Raymond Tallis manages, in the short essays that form the body...
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Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important than Winning Them
The enduring problem of war raises two particularly vexing questions. First, why have wars, in particular civil wars with the huge economic and social costs that they impose on affected populations,...
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Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
Electronic pioneer's cyber literacy guide is lost in translation, argues Harold Thimbleby
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Playing at war, pestilence and death (but it's only a model - shh)
Matthew Reisz reports on how serious games offer insights into politics, pandemics and propaganda
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News in brief
AustraliaNow a part of a 'nitwit nation'?Universities in Australia are "haemorrhaging expertise" and "finding it increasingly difficult to recruit first-class home-grown talent", according to a...
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Take the power back from business, AAUP demands
Universities need to update guidelines on industry collaboration to reinstate academic rights that have been "seriously eroded" over the past generation, a report by the American Association of...
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILResearch Seminar AwardsPsychology• Award winner: Theodore Stickley• Institution: University of Nottingham• Value: £14,957Researching arts, health and well-being•...
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Open access may require funds to be rationed
Moving to gold model could cost sector an extra £60m a year, says Finch group. Paul Jump reports
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Quiet revolutionaries target fresh territory
University business development looks to private and international sources. David Matthews writes
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Scheme to help poor students mapped in haste
A scheme brought in to address concerns over the impact of £9,000 tuition fees on students from poor backgrounds was designed in haste, an interim report on the project has said.
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Not what the researcher ordered: medical charities reduce the dose
Association says members may be diverting cash to meet care demands. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Spin-off Britain: fewer entrants but survivors last longer
Last year, UK universities produced the lowest number of spin-off companies for a decade, but such firms are now surviving longer, a report says.
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News in brief
Student loansPoll shows lack of faith in systemThe new student loans system designed by the government to support higher fees is "unsustainable in the long term", according to a survey of senior...
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The school for scruples
Birmingham's new Centre for Character and Values will address 'practical ethics'. Matthew Reisz writes